Agatino Rizzo
Agatino Rizzo

Agatino Rizzo

Professor and Head of Subject
Luleå University of Technology
Architecture
Architecture and Water
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
agatino.rizzo@ltu.se
+46 (0)920 493438
T3063 Luleå

Academic Profile

I am an architect/engineer and urban planner educated and working in Europe with past work experiences in Asia (Malaysia, Qatar, etc.). I am the head of subject and chair of the architecture research group at LTU which includes about 25 people with a yearly turn over of 2.5 mEur. My work focuses on the nexus between cities and resources (energy and materials), urban experiments/labs, and participatory design/planning. My aim is to develop knowledge for a more resource-inclusive (resourceful) society. I have worked as PI and co-PI in a number of research projects funded by the Qatar National Research Fund, EU Commission's framework programme, Swedish Energy Agency, Formas, and Vinnova. My work has been published in academic journals and books as well as popularized in other media outlets such as CNN International, Domus, and MONU.

Links

[https://www.ltu.se /cms_fs/1.113012!/file/Agatino_Rizzo_CV.pdf]

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/agatinorizzo]

[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agatino_Rizzo]

[https://agatinorizzo.blogspot.com]

Research Projects/Activities

Sweden-Japan collaboration to study urban sustainability in small cities (2023)
The project will focus on the conditions and capacities that small and medium cities have to lead the transition and what type of coordination is needed to succeeded.

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Arctic Five Chair in Architecture & Planning (2022-2024)
The chair will explore smart and sustainable arctic towns, focusing on aligning top-down and bottom-up urban sustainability in Arctic towns.

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Architectural quality, design for circularity and design variation in wood façade systems (2021-2025, PI)
The project examines technical and architectural quality issues and assessment of aesthetics with focus on the connections between design, circularity, adaptability and reusability of the components.

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Prosumer's perspective in cultural heritage districts (2021-2023, LPI)
The purpose of this project is to develop, test and evaluate a method by which prosumers who live and / or work in environments with cultural-historical values are motivated and given the opportunity to integrate solar cells (funded by STEM)

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Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: advisory role (2020-2021)
The theme of the Italian Pavilion is Resilient Communities.

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Book Launch "Predatory Urbanism: Rapid Urbanization and Resources" (2021)
The event took place during the Architecture Biennial in Venice (2021), at the Italian Pavilion "Resilient Communities".

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Solar City Lulea (2018-2021, LPI)
We will investigate how to support "prosumers" by using design thinking and participatory strategies (funded by Energimyndigheten).

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Positive Energy Ecodistrict (2019-2022, LPI)
Urban areas in Luleå and Boden will be part of a new study in Architecture in how smaller neighborhoods or communities in cold climate can become Positive Energy Districts (funded by Formas)

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UNaLab (2018-2023, Co-PI)
The UNaLab project (funded by the EU commission with H2020) sets out to provide a framework for future upscaling of the Nature Based Solutions in the demonstration cities, as well as replicate the solutions in seven replication cities.

[https://www.unalab.eu/]

Kiruna Sustainability Center (2018-2020, Co-PI)
In the Kiruna Sustainability Center, municipalities, industry, research actors and community residents will work together to develop and test ideas, methods and solutions in sustainability (multiple funders).

[https://www.ltu.se/research/areas-of-excellence/attractive-built-environment/Aktuella-projekt/Systemintegrerad-klok-smart-stad-Kiruna-Sustainability-Center-1.181638?l=en]

Datacenter Farming (2019-2020, PI)
The purpose of this project (funded by Vinnova) is to find technical, economic and social synergies between greenhouse gases and data centers that can help make agriculture competitive and sustainable in the Nordic region

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MIN-SPIRE project (2017-2019, LPI)
The aim of this project is to explore the challenges and opportunities in integrating planning and design considerations already into mainstream minining engineering (funded by HLRC).

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Food on the Roof (2018, LPI)
The aim of this project is to explore the possibility to smartly integrate food production in cold urban environments (funded by Enabling ICT).

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RES-LINK: Workshop on Resource and Urbanization in the Arctic (2018)
The aim of this network (funded within the Strategic Funding Joint Arctic Agenda) is to set an interdisciplinary network to initiate research on arctic cities and resources

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Publications

Article in journal

Blue-Green Infrastructure for All Seasons: The Need for Multicolored Thinking (2022)

Sagrelius. P, Lundy. L, Blecken. G, Rizzo. A, Viklander. M
Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, Vol. 8, nr. 4
Book

Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia (2021)

Rizzo. A, Mandal. A
Article, review/survey

Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice (2021)

a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe
 Rizzo. A, Habibipour. A, Ståhlbröst. A
Part of: European Planning Studies
Chapter in book

Transnational Urban Space in the Global South (2021)

Cases from Qatar and Malaysia
 Rizzo. A
Part of: Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East
Article in journal

Megaprojects and the limits of ‘green resilience’ in the global South (2020)

Two cases from Malaysia and Qatar
 Rizzo. A
Urban Studies, Vol. 57, nr. 7, s. 1520-1535
Published:22 December 2013
Updated: 15 March 2023
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